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1 Book review: Engaging students 72 Book Review: Brock, C.H., Goatley, V.J., Raphael, T., Trost-Shatata, E. & Weber, C.M., (2014). Engaging students in disciplinary literacy, K-6: reading, writing, and teaching tools for the classroom. New York, NY: Teachers College Press. Mary Jo Morse State University of New York College ABSTRACT Engaging Students in Disciplinary Literacy, K-6: Reading, Writing, and Teaching Tools for the Classroom, a collaborate effort by authors Cynthia H. Brock, Virginia J. Goatley, Taffy E. Raphael, Elisabeth Trost-Shahata, and Catherine Weber, and recently published in the fall of 2014, is an easily accessible text written to provide support to elementary school teachers as they begin to tackle the challenges of implementing disciplinary literacy instruction with their elementary school learners. The authors develop and utilize a five part design framework for disciplinary literacy instruction and additionally provide teachers with important background information related to how each of the disciplines thinks, reads, writes and talks about its content. Brock and colleagues provide classroom examples of disciplinary literacy lessons in action, and include a host of useful teacher resources in each chapter to enable the successful transfer of the ideas into one s own teaching practices. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Mary-Jo Morse is full-time instructor in the Literacy Department at the State University of New York College at Cortland where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in literacy. Additionally, she is a Ph.D. doctoral student in the Department of Literacy Teaching and Learning at the State University of New York at Albany. Mary-Jo can be contacted via at mary-jo.morse@cortland.edu. As we continue to move forward with implementation of the Common Core State Standards, it is becoming increasingly imperative that we also continually strive to reach across the disciplines of science, social studies and math to teach reading, writing, listening and speaking skills within and through the teaching of these individual disciplines. This is especially true in the elementary grades where the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects require the integration of literacy standards within the context of instruction in the disciplines of science, social studies and mathematics. The mandates of the Common Core are clear about this integration, and yet there are few resources available to assist the elementary classroom teacher in her implementation of disciplinary literacy instruction. Engaging Students in Disciplinary Literacy, K-6: Reading, Writing, and Teaching Tools for the Classroom (Brock et al., 2014) is one of the newer texts published that is meant to help provide elementary school teachers with the needed background information and resources to effectively integrate disciplinary literacy instruction into their everyday teaching practices. Co-authors Cynthia H. Brock, Virginia J. Goatley, Taffy E. Raphael, Elisabeth Trost- Shahata and Catherine M. Weber, have written a text that is readily accessible, clearly and concisely written to and for the intended audience of K-6 elementary teachers, as a means to help support elementary classroom teachers in meeting the expectations of the English Language Arts

2 Book review: Engaging students 73 Common Core State Standards within the context of classroom disciplinary instruction in the areas of social studies, science and mathematics. Brock and her colleagues are keenly aware that most elementary classroom teachers are not trained as content specialists, i.e. historians, scientists or mathematicians, and they have therefore set-out to write a text which supports the elementary classroom teacher in understanding the differences in which experts in these three disciplines think, read, write and talk about information in their respective fields. Throughout the text the authors provide the reader clear descriptions and examples of how practitioners in each discipline differ in how they talk, write, think, and convey information. Brock and her colleagues illustrate how to apply knowledge to designing effective disciplinary literacy instruction. The authors use of classroom scenarios and descriptions of disciplinary literacy instruction planning and implementation, make this text a highly relevant and a useful go-to resource for new and veteran teachers alike, as they begin their individual journeys into designing and implementing disciplinary literacy instruction for their young learners. The 115 pages of running text are broken into three sections: Setting the Context (chapters 1 and 2); Windows into Classroom Teaching and Learning (chapters 3-5) and Designing Your Own Disciplinary Literacy Instruction (chapter 6). Early in each chapter, the authors pose two to three questions to activate the readers thinking about the topic of the chapter, while the major context of the chapter helps to provide additional insight into the questioned posed at the onset. Each chapter is written by several co-authors and this makes for a complete text that reads as if written by a single author, the voice is consistent and clear throughout, making it a user-friendly reading for the target audience of classroom teachers. Additionally, each chapter ends with a brief review of the major ideas presented. From the moment that the reader engages with the text, she is provided with wealth information that sets the stage for the remainder of the text. Beginning with the introductory chapters, Goatley, Raphael & Brock (2014) lay the groundwork for the importance of effective disciplinary literacy in this era of mandates and expectations of the Common Core State Standards. The focal point is the framework of five design principles, established by the text s five co-authors, which the authors consider to be an effective means of creating learning experiences that meet the Common Core State Standards for ELA within the realm of disciplinary learning. These five design principles proposed by the Brock et al. include: the use of authentic social and cultural practices; the use of the optimal learning model (gradual release of responsibility); the use of key inquiry questions as the basis for disciplinary study design; the use of multiple and a wide range of resources; and the use of authentic assessments that assess the varied processes of making meaning that students employ as they read, write, and speak in the context of the learning environment. The five design principles are not only clearly delineated and explained, but are also referred to throughout the remainder of the text, and they form the basis for the core chapters (3, 4 & 5 in Part 2) of the text. The authors systematically explain each component of the framework and thereby also provide their reasoning for why these five design principles, when employed effectively, allow educators to meet the dual commitments as presented by Flioro-Ruane, Raphael, and George, that teachers have to each of their respective students to provide student access to age-appropriate, complex grade-level texts, while also providing students with the necessary support to move each student forward in their reading development through the use of materials written at each student s instructional level (as cited in Brock et al., 2014, p. 9). As Goatley et al. (2014) state, To achieve the intent behind the CCSS and to accelerate learning with the goal of reducing the persistent achievement gap, instruction in the English language arts

3 Book review: Engaging students 74 will need to keep these dual commitments front and center (p. 9). In essence then, the introductory chapters set up the framework that will be employed throughout the remainder of the text in Parts 2 and 3. Once Goatley et al. (2014) have established the disciplinary literacy instructional framework that will be utilized, the focus turns towards the concept of disciplinary literacy and the challenges it presents for many elementary classroom teachers. Co-authors Brock, Goatley, Raphael, and Trost-Shahata ( 2014) provide several key reasons, with detailed explanations, as to why disciplinary literacy instruction implementation can be problematic for elementary classroom teachers. Taken together these problems can make it challenging for many classroom teachers to be in their comfort zone when attempting to provide effective disciplinary literacy instruction. Of the several issues that Brock and colleagues outline, two of these key points are especially relevant to purposes and goals of the text as a whole: 1.) the lack of a clear understanding of what disciplinary literacy entails and 2.) lack of elementary classroom teachers exposure to instruction and modeling of how experts in the disciplinary fields think, act, talk, and write within their disciplines (p. 21). Co-authors Brock, Goatley, Raphael, and Trost-Shahata (2014) explain that it is problematic that there is a lack of a consistent definition or understanding of what disciplinary literacy is and what it entails. The authors clarify that disciplinary literacy is not equivalent to content area literacy. According to the authors, content area literacy involves secondary content area teachers utilizing general literacy strategies in the context of their content instruction, with the focus being on the process of instruction through strategy use (p. 20). Whereas, disciplinary literacy on the other hand, begins with the disciplines themselves and the content knowledge associated with each discipline. The goals of the content area literacy and disciplinary literacy are also very different. As Greenleaf, Cribb, Howlett and Moore assert, disciplinary literacy ask(s) educators to consider how to teach reading, writing, and talking as tools, similar to the way disciplinary experts use these tools. The teacher s goal is to use reading, writing and talking with her students in those unique ways to teach them the content and discourse of the disciplines (as cited in Brock et al., 2014, pp ). The classroom scenarios provided in chapters 3, 4 and 5 are key in illustrating how it is possible for classroom teachers to meet such goals. The text makes clear that designing instruction with the intent of teaching students disciplinary literacy skills is not a case of using typical ELA reading and comprehension strategies and applying them to texts in the content areas. Rather, it is the belief of the authors, that to make sense of the information provided in texts found in each specific discipline, it is necessary to change our thinking about what disciplinary literacy instruction entails. Consequently, the lack of exposure of elementary classroom teachers to instruction and modeling of how experts in the disciplinary fields write, read and talk within their discipline makes effective disciplinary literacy instruction problematic for many elementary school teachers. Brock, Goatley, Raphael, and Trost-Shahata ( 2014) assert that Disciplinary literacy instruction in the elementary grades must foreground the norms of the disciplines in terms of how disciplinary experts think, act, talk and write (p. 23). To this end, the text s five co-authors have framed the core of the text (chapters 3, 4 and 5) to provide many textual and online resources to not only build the knowledge base of the reader and provide real life examples of disciplinary literacy planning and instruction in action, but to also provide elementary classroom teachers access to additional appropriate educational materials in each of the three disciplines (social studies, science and mathematics) examined in the text.

4 Book review: Engaging students 75 The heart of this book, and its most useful contexts are found when the reader engages with the chapters written to explain and illustrate how to use the five design principles to teach disciplinary literacy skills through meeting the expectations of the Common Core State Standards for ELA in reading (chapter 3), writing (chapter 4) and speaking (chapter 5). It is also within the context of chapters 3, 4 and 5 that we have the opportunity to observe how three expert teachers (4 th grade social studies, 2 nd grade science, and 6th grade mathematics) have developed effective and engaging disciplinary literacy instruction within their respective disciplinary units of study. It is through the observations of these classrooms that the reader is shown how to implement the five part framework of disciplinary literacy instruction in the elementary classroom. In this regard the authors have done an outstanding job of not just telling but also showing and explaining how the five part framework is effective in disciplinary literacy instruction in each of the three focus areas of science, social studies and mathematics. That being said however, I would have liked to have seen a greater number of classroom examples provided in each chapter, rather than just the two per chapter that the authors included. One for each discipline in each chapter would have provided the reader with a broader base upon which to build. Alternatively, an appendix or accessible online resource that illustrated many of the other classroom disciplinary literacy instruction scenarios that were obtained from the research behind this text would provide the elementary classroom teacher with a wider range of examples to support her growth in disciplinary literacy instruction implementation. To illustrate how Brock et al. (2014) have written a text to help guide elementary school teachers to more effective planning and implementation of disciplinary literacy instruction, a closer examination of components from the core chapters (chapters 3, 4 and 5) focused on reading, writing and speaking will be provided. To begin with, chapters 3, 4 and 5, all follow a similar pattern in format. In particular, I believe that the reader will gain the most from two specific sections of each chapter, the What Matters About section along with subsequent section Disciplinary Literacy and. The reader is provided with important background information early on in each chapter through discussion of what the authors feel are important components of reading instruction, writing instruction, and classroom talk. It within these What Matters About sections that the respective authors highlight what research has suggested are the important considerations for each of these instructional areas. The authors spend considerable time detailing out each of these important considerations and components, for brevity I will provide and expand only upon those items which appear to be highly relevant to the goals of the text. For example, in Chapter 3 Reading Within and Across Texts (Brock, Wiest, Goatley, Raphael, Trost-Shahata and Weber, 2014), the reader is provided with background information and explanations for each of the five teacher knowledge components advocated by the authors, as necessary for effective disciplinary literacy instruction. Of particular note, the authors stress that for elementary classroom teachers to be able to effectively and efficiently be able to use informational texts from each of the disciplines to provide disciplinary literacy instruction it is imperative that educators have knowledge of the reading context- not all texts are read in the same manner. According to Shanahan and Shanahan the way in which experts in each disciplinary field read is related to the unique features and contexts of each discipline (Brock et al., p. 37). Scientists look at connections between the running text and graphic illustrations such as charts and diagrams, whereas historians learn to look and comprehend author bias and point of view as they read (as cited in Brock et al. 2014, p. 37). Therefore, the authors stance, as well as those of other leading researchers such as Fang and Scheppegrell and Moje is that

5 Book review: Engaging students 76 children be exposed to the different ways in which disciplinary texts are read and written, as they are learning to read (as cited in Brock et al, 2014, p.37). This really is the crux and focus of the background and classroom scenarios that are described and included in the Disciplinary Literacy and section of chapters 3, 4 and 5. The reader when engaging with the What Matters About. section in Writing Within and Across Texts, Chapter 4, (Goatley, Crowther, Pennington, Brock, Raphael & Weber, 2014), will learn important information concerning three critical components of a well-designed, logical framework for disciplinary writing instruction. What is especially noteworthy is the stress that Goatley and her colleagues place on the type of writing assessment that should occur in association with disciplinary writing instruction. The authors assert that assessment should reflect the types of real world writing that would be expected in each of the discipline areas. This is further evidenced in the classroom scenarios provided in chapters 3, 4 and 5, where the science teacher assesses students written observations, the social studies teacher assesses the writing of timelines, while the mathematics teacher assesses persuasive essays written about local budget concerns. When the reader reaches the What Matters About Classroom Talk section in Chapter 5, (Brock, Obenchain, Raphael, Weber, Trost-Shahata & Goatley, 2014). they are introduced to explanations of four components for effectively utilizing classroom talk as a part of disciplinary literacy instruction. What is both interesting and perplexing to me is the placement of this chapter last in the sequence of topics. In my role as a literacy educator for teacher candidates, my own teaching practice positions the CCSS of speaking and listening as front and center. The first several weeks are spent on these standards and the accompanying strategies and skills, because they lay the groundwork for all that is to follow. The majority of time in a classroom revolves around verbal interactions between teacher and student and students among themselves. We learn from each other as we listen and talk with one another. The authors themselves have positioned talk is a central tool for learning (p. 80) as the first important component of utilizing classroom talk. Therefore, it would seem reasonable to have seen the speaking and listening standards addressed prior to the reading and writing standards, because it is through utilizing these oral communication skills of speaking and listening that instruction, instructional engagement activities and ultimately learning will occur. In essence then, across all three chapters the What Matters About section helps to lay a solid foundation upon which the remaining section, Disciplinary Literacy and.. with its detailed examination of classroom disciplinary literacy planning and instruction in action, builds and provides the reader with a rich learning experience and deeper understanding of how to design and implement effective disciplinary literacy instruction. The heart of chapters 3, 4 and 5, as well as the text as a whole, begins when we get to look into the classrooms and see disciplinary literacy instruction in action. The Disciplinary Literacy and... sections offers the elementary classroom teacher not only glimpses into classroom scenarios where disciplinary literacy instruction is occurring, but more importantly makes available to the reader information about how each of the disciplines reads, writes, talks and thinks about its own content. I learned a considerable amount of new information about how historians, mathematicians and scientists approach reading, writing and thinking about their subject matter, and I feel that most readers would experience the same. The respective authors for these three chapters (3, 4 and 5) have taken the time to help fill in the some of the blanks between what the expert in the discipline knows about how to approach their content and what

6 Book review: Engaging students 77 most teachers know about how to read and teach disciplinary specific content. For the sake of brevity, I have included only two of the six scenarios presented across the three chapters. Case in point, within the context of a single chapter ( Reading Within and Across Texts -Chapter 3) we get to see how disciplinary literacy instruction is implemented in a fourth grade Social Studies class discovering why we remember Sacagawea, and a sixth grade mathematics lesson on budgets. However, Brock and her colleagues do not just give us glimpses into the respective classrooms, rather they begin by providing the reader with important information about what it is about each of these disciplines that can make gaining meaning from reading the text challenging for students, and adults alike. To understand how historians think about history, the work of Bruce VanSledright is discussed (as cited in Brock et al., 2014, p. 45). VanSledright proposes that the ability to read history exists on a continuum of four levels, ranging from Level 1-novice to Level 4-expert. Each level is indicative of the progression of reading skills that the reader brings to the text to aid comprehension. Readers at the novice stage are able to monitor comprehension, reread, gather an initial understanding of the text and are engaged primarily in intra-textual analysis, the lowest level of expertise. The reader reaches Level 2, when he is able to evaluate the text, by Level 3 readers begin to be able to pull together information and details across multiple sources to build an understanding of the historical event that they are reading about. When a reader has gained the ability to read across multiple texts and make critical evaluations of what then are reading then according to VanSledright they have reached Level 4. The fourth grade social studies teacher uses this knowledge of VanSledright s work to implement her own disciplinary literacy instruction in her classroom, and has designed her lessons about Sacagawea to focus on developing elements of the first three levels of expertise of historical reading in her students. Therefore, the teacher s lessons will help her students to accomplish the following goals: monitor their reading by checking rereading, checking for details and getting the gist of the reading; use within the text analysis; evaluate the text; demonstrate a better understanding of historical events; and use knowledge from multiple sources to create a preliminary understanding of an historical event. To accomplish the aforementioned goals while answering the question Why we remember Sacagawea, Brock et al. detail out how the fourth grade teacher demonstrates the five essential knowledge components for effective reading instruction, and additionally how her lessons follow the five part framework of effective disciplinary literacy instruction. The authors illustrate how the fourth grade teacher was able to build her students understanding not only the historical content about the importance of Why we remember Sacagawea, but also how historians read, write and think about their content through the incorporation into her lesson designs of read-alouds, the use of multiple texts, and by teaching students of how to read maps, and how to read and construct time-lines. The description of the lesson sequence and development to answer the focus question of Why we remember Sacagawea? provides important insight as to how to structure similar lessons focused on reading within and across texts, throughout the elementary grades in the area of social studies. Turning to the sixth grade mathematics class on budgets, Brock et al. (2014). provide the reader with the necessary background to explain disciplinary literacy instruction in the realm of reading within and across texts as viewed through the eyes of a mathematician. In this particular instance, this sixth grade teacher focuses on while also building their mathematical skills. Quantitative literacy is based upon the work of Miller and Weist, Higgin, and Frost, and requires that the reader have the ability to question data and not accept it at face value, critically assess claims made and critically evaluate evidence provided to support those claims and lastly

7 Book review: Engaging students 78 to look for and uncover faulty reasoning (as cited in Brock et al., 2014, p 51). The authors then illustrate step by step how the sixth grade mathematics teacher developed her lesson on budgets such that her students were provided with the opportunity to engage in each of the major components of quantitative literacy. The descriptions provided, as with the former example of the social studies lesson, make development and implementation of similar lessons in mathematical disciplinary literacy instruction within the reach of the elementary classroom teacher. As a college instructor of undergraduate and graduate literacy courses, I found this inclusion of quantitative literacy and VanSledright's historical literacy extremely beneficial, as it provides the research and reasoning behind the methodology that both of these classroom teachers employ in their effort to provide effective disciplinary literacy instruction in reading. In other chapter, the reader is invited into the classroom disciplinary writing instruction of a second grade science class and a sixth grade mathematics class, where student writing samples are included that illustrate the various types of disciplinary writing that the students engaged in during these respective lessons. I especially appreciated the fact that the authors included a variety of student samples. A few exemplary samples were provided, but also included were student samples which illustrated areas of needed improvement which the authors expanded upon in their discussion. Additionally classroom scenarios employing disciplinary literacy instruction through classroom talk in the fourth grade social studies class, and the second grade science class are provided in Chapter 5. The scenarios and explanations provided by the authors in this chapter help to make this text an extremely beneficial resource for teachers looking to incorporate classroom talk into their disciplinary literacy instruction. I found Engaging Students in Disciplinary Literacy, K-6: Reading, Writing and Teaching Tools for the Classroom (Brock et al., 2014) to be a highly accessible and informative text and one which I will be recommending to both my undergraduate and graduate students for inclusion in their professional libraries. No matter what role that you may play in the education of children in grades K-6 (classroom teacher, literacy specialist, or literacy coach) you will find Engaging Students in Disciplinary Literacy, K-6: Reading, Writing and Teaching Tools for the Classroom (Brock et al., 2014) to be an especially useful text in providing guidance for incorporating disciplinary literacy instruction into your classroom practices. The text incorporates several classroom examples of disciplinary literacy lessons in action, and also provides a host of useful teacher resources embedded in each chapter to enable the successful transfer of the ideas proposed into one s own teaching practices. At a mere six chapters and 115 pages of running text this book would make an ideal choice for discussion within a professional learning community, professional development setting, as well as an independent read for your own professional growth.

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